{"id":111811,"date":"2020-04-20T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/piko_interactive_secures_the_rights_to_odt_escape_or_die_tryings_scrapped_n64_version"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:30:00","slug":"piko-interactive-secures-the-rights-to-odt-escape-or-die-tryings-scrapped-n64-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/piko-interactive-secures-the-rights-to-odt-escape-or-die-tryings-scrapped-n64-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Piko Interactive Secures The Rights To ODT: Escape Or Die Trying&#8217;s Scrapped N64 Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6e26d8448d5ee\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6e26d8448d5ee\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"ODT Escape Or Die Trying\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6e26d8448d5ee\/odt-escape-or-die-trying.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6e26d8448d5ee\/odt-escape-or-die-trying.900x.jpg\" alt=\"ODT Escape Or Die Trying\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Publisher Piko Interactive has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pikointeractive\/status\/1251629775485050881?s=20\">revealed<\/a> that it has acquired the rights to <strong>O.D.T.<\/strong> (or <strong>O.D.T.: Escape&#8230; Or Die Trying<\/strong> as it&#8217;s known in North America). Interestingly, the deal also includes the rights to the scrapped Nintendo 64 version.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published by Psygnosis, O.D.T. is an action-adventure game that launched on PlayStation and Windows back in 1998. The game sees a team of adventurers set off on a journey to recover an artefact called the Green Pearl after washing up in a crash-landed ship. It didn&#8217;t review particularly well when it launched, but a Nintendo 64 port was in the works for some time.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture embed right img-\" readability=\"2\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"ODT Escape Or Die Trying\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f32079d9c9cda\/odt-escape-or-die-trying.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f32079d9c9cda\/odt-escape-or-die-trying.900x.jpg\" alt=\"ODT Escape Or Die Trying\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The game&#8217;s NTSC PlayStation cover<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Two builds of this N64 release were in development (a North American version and a European version) before the idea was eventually scrapped (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/tcrf.net\/O.D.T._-_Escape..._Or_Die_Trying_(Nintendo_64)\">TCRF<\/a>). Whether Piko Interactive has plans to actually bring this dead port back to life isn&#8217;t clear just yet, but it sure would be interesting to see an official release after all this time.<\/p>\n<p>Have you played this game on PlayStation? Would you like to see how it would have played on N64? Tell us below.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Thanks to Vitas for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher Piko Interactive has revealed that it has acquired the rights to O.D.T. (or O.D.T.: Escape&#8230; Or Die Trying as it&#8217;s known in North America). Interestingly, the deal also includes the rights to the scrapped Nintendo 64 version. Originally published by Psygnosis, O.D.T. is an action-adventure game that launched on PlayStation and Windows back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}